Exodus 4:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. ”

Exodus 4:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will harden - Calamities which do not subdue the heart harden it. In the case of Pharaoh, the hardening was at once a righteous judgment, and a natural result of a long series of oppressions an...
Exodus 4:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will (i) harden his heart, that he shall n...
Exodus 4:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:21-23 J. The Death of Pharaoh's Firstborn is Threatened. Exodus 4:22 f. seems to have been moved back hither from before Exodus 10:28 to serve as a general introduction to the Plagu...
Exodus 4:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I will harden . I will embolden. By Hebrew idiom active verbs of doing are used of suffering or permitting. thing to be done. Compare Genesis 31:7 , e.g. Hebrew "God did not give him to do me evil"...
Exodus 4:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

21. When thou goest to return. Moses had not previously enumerated the wonders; but from this verse we gather, that whatever we shall presently read to be done, was already commanded by God....
Exodus 4:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not l...
Exodus 4:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Goest to return— Houbigant renders this, And the Lord said unto him, when he was returning into Egypt. The Vulgate renders it in the same manner. I will harden his heart — For a full explica...
Exodus 4:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall n...
Exodus 4:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Signs Attesting the Commission of Moses. His Return to Egypt Moses still hesitates, and now objects that the péople will not believe him when he tells them that Jehovah has sent him. He is granted...
Exodus 4:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

All those wonders. — Not the “three signs” of Exodus 3:3-9 , but the “portents” or “wonders “which were to be done before Pharaoh, and which had been alluded to in Exodus 3:20 . These were, in th...
Exodus 4:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

MOSES OBEYS . Exodus 4:18-31 . Moses is now commissioned: he is to go to Egypt, and Aaron is coming thence to meet him. Yet he first returns to Midian, to Jethro, who is both his employer and...
Exodus 4:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Moses and Aaron Announce God's Purpose to Israel Exodus 4:18-31 So often the keenest tests of a man's fitness for his life-work are furnished by his behavior in his home. It may be that Zippora...
Exodus 4:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

A further difficulty was now declared. The man who first doubted himself and then doubted because of his ignorance of God now doubted because of the people to whom he was to be sent. God had told him...
Exodus 4:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

So many objections vain and carnal men have in all ages brought against the hardening of Pharaoh's heart; that I wish the Reader, be who he may, to pause once for all over this account of it, and con...
Exodus 4:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses ,.... At the same time he appeared to him in Midian, and ordered him to go into Egypt, even before his departure thither: when thou goest to return into Egypt ; and wh...
Exodus 4:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not l...
Exodus 4:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Which I have put in thy hand In thy power: I will harden his heart After he has frequently hardened it himself, wilfully shutting his eyes against the light, I will at last permit Satan to harden...
Exodus 4:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

God's message to Moses has been so clear that it cannot be mistaken. He has made no secret of the opposition of Pharaoh, but has declared positively that He would enable Israel to triumph over this a...
Exodus 4:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Moses Returns in Egypt. B. C. 1491. 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father...
Exodus 4:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In thine hand, i.e. in thy power or commission, to be clone by thy hand, and the rod in it. I will harden his heart, that he shall he unmerciful to all the groans and pressures of the Israelites,...
Exodus 4:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Three Sons ( Exodus 4:21-26 ). This section could be described as being at the heart of the book of Exodus, for it deals with three attitudes that lie at the heart of God's dealings with the w...
Exodus 4:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 4:21-23 THE ANTICIPATION OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE I. That very frequently God causes good men to anticipate Christian service . 1. It is often anticipa...
Exodus 4:21 - Scofield Reference Notes

harden his heart (Cf) ( Exodus 8:15 ); ( Exodus 8:32 ); ( Exodus 9:34 ). In the face of the righteous demand of Jehovah and of the tremendous attestations by miracle that He was indeed God, an...
Exodus 4:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 4:1 . They will not believe me. Then the Lord directed him to work a miracle, the most convincing evidence of divine authority, for the removal of unbelief. Exodus 4:2 . A rod. Milton h...
Exodus 4:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

See that thou do all these wonders before Pharaoh. Moses before Pharaoh Israel was under the sovereign control of the King of Egypt. He had property in them. Moses in the name of the Lord sudde...
Exodus 4:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Exodus 4:18-2 If Moses had, as we have supposed, been accepted into the Midianitish nation, he would need permission to withdraw himself from the tribal head. This head was now J...
Exodus 4:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Moses dismissed by Jethro
Exodus 4:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

wonders. Exodus 3:20 I will harden. Exodus 7:3 Exodus 7:13 Exodus 9:12 Exodus 9:35 Exodus 10:1 Exodus 10:20 Exodus 14:8 Genesis 6:3 Deuteronomy 2:30-33 Deuteronomy 2:36 Joshua...
Exodus 4:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In thy hand — in thy power: I will harden his heart — After he has frequently harden'd it himself, wilfully shutting his eyes against the light, I will at last permit Satan to harden it effectually...

Exodus 4:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 4:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 4:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 4:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 4:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 4:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 4:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 4:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 4:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 4:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 4:21 - Scofield Reference Notes

Exodus 4:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 4:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 4:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 4:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 4:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 4:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes